PM must prioritise Birmingham pub bombings inquiry, say victims’ families

Relatives of those killed in 1974 attack urge government on its 50th anniversary to set up statutory inquiry

Relatives of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings have said England's biggest unsolved mass murder of the 20th century" should be at the top of the government's list as they renewed their calls for a public inquiry on the 50th anniversary of the atrocity.

On 21 November 1974, 21 people were killed and 220 injured when bombs exploded in two Birmingham pubs, in an attack widely believed to have been orchestrated by the Provisional IRA.